When the version of iOS is released iPhones will be able to do everything this does, be more portable, and they have a camera for uploading photos to ask questions about. Google and Samsung phones already have that functionality. So do a lot of Chinese phones. Why would anyone buy a low end speaker that does less than the phone they already take everywhere? I cannot see how this appeals to anyone but industrial design geeks who idolize Jony Ive.

IBM is still in fine shape. The company is not losing money. Revenue did not fall off a cliff like the stock price did. If they're smart IBM can wait this out and quietly prepare for things to bounce back when the insane AI capex ends and people need something IBM is ready to provide. (But, realistically, IBM will just lay off 25,000 good people instead of putting human capital to good use as part of a long term strategy.)

I don't have time to keep track of security updates for my router, apply them, and check now and then to make sure it hasn't been compromised. Comcast has the infrastructure and people to do it all themselves. I don't have to think about it at all.

Of course it's probably the only thing Comcast can do right, but I think most people on Slashdot have heard that story a million times so I won't go there!

Grab the rope hanging from the bubble! It will pull us all up forever! We're all gonna be millionaires! Put your whole 401k into NASDAQ growth funds! YEEHAAAAAAAAAAW!

Companies want to pay CEOs high salaries. It gives the impression that the company is doing well because it can afford to pay the CEO handsomely and that the CEO is doing their job well. Which inflates share prices.

When the AI bubble pops there are going to be lots of skilled chip designers looking for work. Maybe there will finally be some fresh competition in the Intel and AMD duopoly in the PC CPU scene. If we could have low power, cool running, SoC units that can run Linux as well as Apple silicon handles MacOS I might finally go back to Linux.

If urban people can deal with ugly postmodern architecture in their cities the rural people can deal with cooling towers. Manhattan even has a giant power transformer station with multiple steam vents that look like smokestacks; that's no worse than a nuke plant. Once you get used to the sight it just becomes part of the neighborhood.

Nuclear energy is green energy. Just because the externalities of nuclear are more obvious than the externalities of wind or solar does not make those other options any cleaner than nuclear.

Surely all the people who buy Apple laptops because of the great screens want to have a glossy screen with fingerprints all over it. I know that when I am tweaking an image in Photoshop on a small display what I really want to see is my own little fingerprints on top of all the details. And what makes it even better is that I will get to have one UI for my touchscreen laptop and a different UI for my non-touchscreen laptop. Just like those touch bar laptops that everybody loved so much. And Force Touch, that worked out great, right?

If this is only going to affect devices that have Secure Core and Secure Boot enabled how many devices like that exist in the wild? Who would disable both of those other than a handful of developers trying to make Linux work on Surface computers and security researchers who want to break their stuff?

China doesn't have enough young workers to handle the coming explosion in memory care for its own people. They aren't going to take on anyone else's parents. And China is a nationalist ethnostate. The CCP does not like immigrants and is not going to open the gates to people who are too old to work.

If OpenAI really wants to attract users they should get rid of the Silicon Valley groupthink vomiting CEO who regularly says things that horrify many people. Dario Amodei may be an even bigger dork than Bill Gates but he tries to not sound like a mad villain from a science fiction movie much of the time. OpenAI is going to end up like Tesla if Altman is allowed to keep speaking in front of cameras.

In a few years EVs won't come with lithium batteries. They'll all be using Huawei and CATL's sodium batteries that are not prone to explosions. Huawei will be launching cars with sodium batteries this year or next and the other EV companies will have to license the technology to stay competitive.

I have no use for social media content enhancing crap from Meta. I just want to be able to pay for Instagram with no recommendations and with a chronological feed.

Github was probably being used because someone in government considers it COTS software from a reliable American corporation. Those people who used to insist on using IIS instead of Apache are still around!